Groves Family Cemetery

 

Richwood Township

Section 15, Township 39 North, Range 12 West

Miller County, MO.

 

 

 

From Iberia’s junction of 42 and 17, take Hwy 42 for 3.3 miles east to Brays Church Road on the right.  Turn right and go 1.6 miles to a long lane leading to the left, crossing a cattle guard.  This is private property now owned by Kevin and Heather Carmack

 

Follow this lane .4 miles to the cemetery.  The cemetery is at the top of this drive and the lone stone is by his dog pen.   They now have a new home built to the left of this and slightly up the hill.  You need to ask permission to go to this cemetery for it is on private property.

 

This cemetery is no longer in use.

 

Personally inventoried by Dianna (Hale) Mattingly, Glenda (May) Crawford & Vera (Clark) Strutton

May 2001

 

Re-inventoried March 7, 2016 - Dianna Hale Mattingly to get pictures.  The headstone is mostly gone, but part of it is still legible.

 

 

 

For any information or corrections please contact me at:   deestarr47@gmail.com

 

 

Groves, Elijah Ship         (Civil War - Veteran)

15 Oct. 1829 – 25 Dec. 1890

Co, F. Osage Co – MO Home Guards

h/o Martha Emeline (Breeding)
He has a replacement stone in the Union Cemetery, but this is his original burial site...Union Cemetery FAG # is 19059330



 

 


Last update: 2022
© 2001 by Dianna Hale-Mattingly